Mannerisms

[minioncookies]

DO you teach your kids manners? What age is appropriate to start learning manners? Do you think parents ought to teach their kids manners at a young age? How do you reward them when they do good? 

[vickysue]

Children should be taught manners as soon as they start talking or before. When they learn the word no it is time to start on them. A 2 year already know right from wrong. It just has to be enforced.

[BATISTAGIRL663]

teaching children starts at birth!! and its the parents place to insteal in kids the common sense manners that so few kids know today!! kids have no respect for anyone or themselves and this world is in trouble if parents don't start putting their foot down and start making a difference!!

[loulizlee]

I am so proud of my daughter and her husband.  They began to teach our grandson good manners as soon as he could talk, and even before.  It started with them teaching him to say Thank You and Excuse Me.  They have instilled in him such good manners that at five years old it is natural for him now.  I think maybe I can take a little credit.  That was the way she was taught.    I too am fearful for the future of many of the young people today.  So many can't read or write and have no common sense at all.

[Nancy5]

My girls learned manners at a very early age.  I think the first things they learned was not to touch certain things, to say thank you and please.  I'm so happy that my grandson, who is 5, also has good manners.

[autumnsparklemom]

The younger the better. I've seen a lot of disrespectful youth in my time.

[manders8]

I don't have kids of my own. I personally think you should teach kids manners right off the bat. When they can start talking I think it is important for them to learn to tell people thank you. I also think it is important to teach your children to share at a young age. When they grow into being a pre-teen I think its important to teach them life lessons especially explaining to them that life isn't always fair and you can't always get things you want.

[countrygirl12]

DO you teach your kids manners? What age is appropriate to start learning manners? Do you think parents ought to teach their kids manners at a young age? How do you reward them when they do good? 

Kids learn manners from birth.  Even when you think they are too young they observe what's going on around them.  Judging from kids I see at Walmart most people do not teach their kids any manners. lol

[msmoneybags48]

Manners should be taught when children are capable of understanding.  The children of today have potty mouths, and should be washed out with soap.  My daughter taught my grandchildren to be respectable of adults.  I began teaching my daughter when she began to talk.  She would not talk to me until she was nearly three, and we had our own sign language.  When she wanted something, she would stick out her hand and give me the look that said, "I want some".  Otherwise, she was relatively good.

[jkhanson]

DO you teach your kids manners? What age is appropriate to start learning manners? Do you think parents ought to teach their kids manners at a young age? How do you reward them when they do good? 


Manners, or lack of manners, ARE TAUGHT by the parents whether the parents know it or not.  Babies/Children learn from birth just by observing you. 

Saying "thank you"; "you're welcome"; "Shh"; "we have to wait", "please" etc......to your baby as you interact with them teaches them, even though you aren't doing a formal teaching session with them.

You asked how to reward them for being good.....they know they did good by YOUR reaction and interaction with them!   When you have an excited happy face, they know they pleased you.  If you have a stern or negative face, they know they didn't.  Consistent interaction and daily "teachable moments" make a big impact on your child.  They are little sponges.

With that said, I think "Formal"teaching of manners and etiquette is also important for children.  Teaching Respect for elders, boundaries, writing Thank you cards do need to be TAUGHT.   

[mythociate]

DO you teach your kids manners? What age is appropriate to start learning manners? Do you think parents ought to teach their kids manners at a young age? How do you reward them when they do good? 

Kids learn manners from birth.  Even when you think they are too young they observe what's going on around them.  Judging from kids I see at Walmart most people do not teach their kids any manners. lol

That's right; 'manners' are simply "what you call the ways you're trained to act" when you're conscious of them. Before you're conscious of them, they are simply 'how you smoothly, efficiently hold your place in the "school" (moving group of fish).'

[loulizlee]

I came across this question again today.  I had posted to it the other day, but today I got to thinking - manners and mannerisms are two different things.

Manners is defined as:  The socially correct way of acting; etiquette.

Mannerisms is defined as:  1.  A distinctive behavioral trait; an idiosyncrasy.

2.  Exaggerated or affected style or habit, as in dress or speech.

I think manners are learned and mannerisms are, for the most part, characteristic traits or idiosyncrasies.

[luvh8tragedy87]

Yeah I thought you were talking about mannerisms just from the subject. But on your question, I don't have kids myself but I think it's important to teach manners as soon as possible. My parents did. Taught me to always say please, thank you, and to just be polite.